The study of language has a long and rich history, extending over thousands of years. This
study has frequently been understood as an inquiry into the nature of mind and thought on …

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to
shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in
the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of …

This book is a revision of my doctoral dissertation (Kemmer 1988), written at Stanford
University. The main difference between this and the previous version is that the central …

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from
the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

One of the central concerns of current syntactic research is the characterization of the
mapping relating lexical meaning and syntactic form. An important facet of this com …

This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and
Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis …

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic
meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents …

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in
syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the …